The General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union visited a blossoming training scheme in the district today.

Bill Morris presented awards to 37 employees at commercial interiors company Interface, based in Shelf, for graduating from the firm's Trades Union Learning Interface Project (TULIP).

The TULIP centre is designed to promote life-long learning within the workforce and is a partnership initiative between Interface and Bradford College.

Opened in October 2000, the Centre is key to the business's aim of becoming fully sustainable by developing employees so they can adapt to change.

Introductory and intermediate computing courses have proved the most popular to date, with a range of other classes covering everything from plumbing to languages in the pipeline.